Birth
He was born at the Royal Palace in Stockholm and at birth created Duke of Skåne. Gustaf Adolf was a descendant of the Bernadotte kings of Sweden, as well as the House of Vasa. Through his mother Victoria, he was also a descendant of Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden of the deposed House of Holstein-Gottorp.
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Famous quotes containing the word birth:
“Spirit enters flesh
And for all it’s worth
Charges into earth
In birth after birth
Ever fresh and fresh.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“I am fifty-two years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church, and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reasonably responsible. In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute—a white skin.”
—Desmond Tutu (b. 1931)
“It suggested, too, that the same experience always gives birth to the same sort of belief or religion.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)